Managing Geo-Based Challenges: World-Wide Case Studies and Sustainable Local Solutions

✍ Scribed by Serwan M. J. Baban (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 232
• Series: Environmental Science and Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides sound conceptual understanding of the current approach to management and decision making regarding geo-based challenges in developing countries that tend to suffer from information poverty and subjectivity and are reactive. The book also provides the necessary technical tools to energize research thinking and develop locally driven practical and sustainable solutions, ultimately moving management and decision making from being reactive to being proactive. This book fills a void as there are no published books to show the way forward or to present real case studies for this purpose.

Case studies that utilize new technologies and scientific thinking are presented for developing sustainable management options based either on producing local applied research or on utilising relevant international research. These case studies are based on the author's first-hand experiences in arid/semi-arid (Iraq, Tunisia, Morocco and Jordan), temperate (UK) and tropical environments (Malaysia, the Caribbean region, Indonesia and Australia).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Early Influences and Career Evolution....Pages 1-37
Geo-hazards Science and Management....Pages 39-71
Water Resources Science and Management....Pages 73-105
Land Use/Cover, Agriculture and Biodiversity Research....Pages 107-141
Suitability Science and Management....Pages 143-166
Sustainable Development Science and Management....Pages 167-197
Higher Education and University Governance....Pages 199-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-228

✦ Subjects

Sustainable Development; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis